Lateral-motion device for car-trucks.



No. 784,096. PATENTED MAR. '7, 1905. L. W. BARBER. LATERAL MOTION DEVICE EOE GAR TRUCKS.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 4. 1904.

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L. w. BARBER.

LATERAL MOTION DEVICE FOR GAR TRUCKS.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 4. 1904.

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LATRRAL MOTION DRVIGR POR CAR TRUCKS.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 4, 1904.

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tripla LEE W. BARBER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSICNOR ,lO STANDARD CAR TRUCK COMPANY, OE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORAIION OE NEWr JERSEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,096, dated March 7, 1905.

Application filed October 4,190A. Serial No. 227.094.

To (all 1.0700711/ '[129' Tim/y concern:

Beit known that I, LEE lV. BARBER, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ot' Cook and State oi' Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lateral-Motion Devices for Car- Trucks; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in Io the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to car-trucks, and has for its object to improve the construction ot' the so-called Llateral-motion devices therefor.

The invention consists of the novel devices and combinations ot' devices hereinafter described, and delined in the claims.

Iny the so-called Barber lateralmotion 2o trucks, which are now in extensive use throughout the United States and elsewhere, the truck-holsters are mounted for limited movements transversely of the truck, thereby permitting' lateral movements of the car-body 2 5 with respect to the trucks, such lateral movements being permitted by lateral-motion devices comprising' upper and lower roller-bearings and interposed bearing-rollers. As constructed prior to my present invention these 3o roller-bearings have been formed with cylindrical roller-seats, the concave surfaces of which directly engage the said rollers. In trucks wherein a lateral motion not greatly in excess of one inch is required these cylin- 3 5 drical seats have been found to work in a satisfactory manner. these cylindrical seats that the rollers and the bearing resting thereon will be given an accelerated rise under movements of the truck- 40 bolster in either direction away `from an intermediate normal position. Otherwise stated, when the rollers rest in the deepest portions of the cylindrical seats or in the close vicinity thereof transverse movements oli' the truck bolster will cause the rollers to rise very slowly, while the same amount of transverse movement imparted to the truck-bolster when the rollers are near the extremities of the cy- It is, however, incident to lindrical seats will cause the rollers to rise relatively at a very rapid rate and under eor- 5o respondinglyincreased resistance.

r[here is a growing demand in railway serv` ice i'or very long cars, and these long cars have been found to require as much and sometimes more than `tour inches lateral movement of the ear-body with respect to the trucks. lo increase or extend in length the. cylindrical seats in the bearings, so as to give this increased amount ol lateral movement, would require one oftwo things --to wit, either 6o that said seats be given extension of curve such that the rise of the rollers at the extremities thereof will be too great or that the curve of the seats be made ol' such large radius that at the intermediate portions thereo'll there will 6 5 be too little rise, and hence a very slight tendency to maintain the rollers in central or intermediate positions with respect to said seats. As is evident, the said seats should act upon the rollers to resist lateral movements thereof 7o Yfrom their intermeifliate centered position with sniiicient 'force to nntintain considerable stability between the parts. Otherwise stated, the lateral-motion devices are intended to permit lateral movement of the car-body with respect to the trucks, or vice versa, and relieve the same from strains only when considerable liorce becomes active tendingl to produce such relative movements. l

All of the above-noted limitations l remove 30 by my present invention, which consists in forming the depressed roller-seats in the upper and lower roller-beznings with flat bearing-suri`aces thatdeviate or incline from horizontal planes at the proper angle to oller the desired resistance to movements olI the bear ing-rollers, and hence oli the truck-bolstcrs and car-body, `lrom their normal intermediate positions. WVith this construction it results that for all positions o'l the rollers a given 90 amount ot' transverse movement ol the carbody with respect to the trucks or with respect to the trnek-wheels will cause the same amount ot' rise of the rollers, and conseqlientl such movements will take placeimder a con- 9 5 stant resistance as distinguishcnl from an aecelerated resistance, such as afforded by the cylindrical seats above noted. It therefore also follows that the amount of lateral movement which may be permitted to the car-body and bolsters is in no wise limited by the form of the roller-bearing seats and may be increased to any extent found desirable or practicable, other things being' considered.

1n the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation with some parts broken away, showing' a car-truck equipped with my improved lateral-motion devices. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section taken approximately on the line a? of Fig'. 1, some parts being' broken away and some parts being shown in full. Fig'. 3 is a horizontal section on the line m3 i113 of Fig'. 2. Fig'. 4 is a detail view in plan, showing one of the lower roller-bearings or roller-bases and a pair of rollers seated thereon, some parts being broken away; and Fig'. 5 is a view corresponding to Fig. 2, but illustrating' a modified arrangement of the roller-bearing levices.

The numeral 1 indicates one of the trussed side frames of the truck and in which, as shown, the upper arch-bar at its intermediate portion is bent downward at 2 to afford bolster-columns. The gap left in the upper arch of the trussed side frame by the downwardlybent yoke 2 thereof is spanned by a thrustresisting bridge or tie-bar 3, whichis bolted thereto at 4. The above construction briefly indicated while novel is not herein claimed, the same being more fully set forth and broadly claimed in my copending application, Serial No. 230,305, filed of date October 23, 1904, entitled Car-truck. Hence it will be understood that so far as my present invention is concerned the truck may take various forms.

rlhe numeral 5 indicates angle-transoms which, as shown, are riveted to the columnforming sections 2 of the upper arch-bar. Also, as shown, the numeral 6 indicates a saddle-plate which is seated on that portion of the upper trussed bar which connects the lower extremities of the bolster-column-forming' sections 2 and is bolted to the lower bars of the frame and is rigidly secured by rivets or otherwise to the transoms 5.

The numeral 7 indicates the truck-bolster, which in the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, is provided at its ends with depending' chafing-plates 8, formed on their inner faces with heavy vertical guide-ribs 81. As is usual, shimming-blocks 9 are seated in the ends of the bolster and are provided on their lower faces, as shown, with thin metallic facing-plates 10.

Still referring to the constructionillustrated in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, the lower roller-bearing' or roller-base 11 is seated on the saddleplate 6 and on the horizontal flanges of the transoms 5 and, as shown, is held ag'alnst sliding movements by flanges 12 on said saddleplate that engag'e end flanges of said bearing.

The roller-bearing seats, of which, as shown, the bearing or base 11 1s provided with two, are indlcated by the numeral 13, and, as already stated, they are formed with fiat diverging bearing' surfaces 13. rlhese flat bearing-surfaces 13'LL from the intermediate or central portions of the seats diverge upward from a horizontal plane and at a constant angle thereto. At the extremities of the seats 13 the bearing 11 is formed with abrupt shoulders 13b, that afford positive stops for the bearing-rollers 14, which rest in the said seats. The upper roller-bearing' 15 in the construction at present under consideration affords a combined roller-cap and spring-base 15, which rests upon the rollers 14 and is provided with inverted concave roller-seats 16. The roller-seats 16, like the roller-seats 13 of the lower bearing 11, are formed with flat inclined bearing-surfaces 16, that terminate in abrupt stop-shoulders 16". At its sides the combined roller-cap and spring-base 15 is formed with notches or seats 17, that receive the flanges 8 of the bolster chafing-plates 3. The guide-flanges 8 therefore cause said bearing' 15 to travel with the bolster transversely of the truck.

The flat bearing-surfaces of the roller-seats instead of being' joined at an angle are preferably filled in on the arc of a circle whose diameter is equal to the diameter of the cooperating bearing-roller.

The transverse movement of the bolster is limited in the construction illustrated in Fig's. v1 to 4, inclusive, by vertically-projecting' stoplugs 18, formed on the inner extremities of the lower bearings 11 and with which the said 'bearings 15 engage under their extreme inward movement. Spring's 19, of which, as shown, there are four, are interposed between the combined roller-cap and spring-base 15 and the overlying shimming-block 9 in the adjacent end of' the bolster.

In the construction illustrated in Fig'. 5 the upper roller bearing' or cap 20 is directly secured to the shimming-block 9 and the overlying end of the bolster 7 and travels therewith. The lower roller-bearing 21 affords a combined roller-base and spring-cap and is provided with depending guide-lugs 22, that embrace the sides of vertical sections 2 of' the upper frame-bar, so that the said bearing 21 is guided for vertical movements thereby. The springs 19 in this construction are interposed between the said roller-bearing' 21 and a fixed support 23 on the adjacent side of the truckframe. The roller-bearing seats formed in the roller-bearing's 20 and 21 are the same as those before described and are indicated by the same numerals.

From what has been said it will be under- IOO IIO

stood that the mechanism described is capable of many modiiications and different arrangements within the scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed.

It will oi course be understood that the term L bearing-rollers is used in a sense broad enough to include bearing-balls.

That I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ci' the United States, is as follows:

1. A lateral-motion device for trucks, comprising upper and lower roller-bearings, and interposed rollers,said roller-bearings having,l roller-seats formed with Hat bearing-surfaces, that diverge from a horizontal plane, and eX- tend 'from the intermediate portions of said roller-seats, substantially as described.

2. In a car-truck, a lateral-motion device intcrposed between the truck-frame and the truck-bolster comprising upper and lower roller-bearings, and interposed bearing-rollers, said roller-bearings having` roller-seats formed with fiat bearingsurfaces, that diverge 4 :from a horizontal plane, and extend in opposite directions from the intermediate portions oi' said roller-seats, substantiallyas described.

3. ln a car-truck, a latcral-motion device and springs, interposed between the truck-bolster and the truek-frame,said lateral-motion device comprising upper and lower roller-bearings, and interposed rollers, one oi' which bearings is held to move with the truck-bolster, and the other with the truck-frame, said bearings having roller-seats formed with flat bearingfsurfaces, that diverge from a horizontal plane, and extend 'from the intermediate portions of said seats, substantially as described.

4E. In a car-trucl the combination with a truck-frame and a truelvbolster, of upper and lower roller-bearings, the former of which is carried transversely of the truck by said bolster, and has a limited vertical movement with respect thereto', and the latter of which is lxed on the truck-iframe, and has astop-lugli'or interceptinp transverse movements of said upper rollerbearing, springs interposed between said upper roller-bearing and the truck-bolster, and bearing-rollers interposed between said upper and lower roller bearings, said roller bearings having rollerH seats :formed with flat bearing-surfaces, that diverge from a horizontal plane, and from the intermediate portions oi' said seats, and which seats terminate in abrupt stop-shoulders, substantially described.

In testimony whereofl ailix my signature in presence oi' two witnesses.

LEE W". BARBER. Witnesses:

MARTI-1A HILL, F. D. lVhmonAN'r. 

